Blogs and Forums for your business The world wide web is changing, and your business needs to change with it. The days of using the web as a brochure only are gone. These days, the web has to be interactive, intuitive, informative and helpful. Your customers rely on you to be a subject matter expert. They want to hear about your successes, and how you've created successes for other customers. They want to hear about your new products, new services or press coverage you've received. The best method for doing this is to have a blog or forum (or both) on your website. With over 5 years of experience in writing and managing blogs of many different subjects, eCARD is here to help set up a blog or forum for you business. We offer programs that can put you as hands-on or hands-off as you'd like in the blogging process.

We offer complete hosted blogging services to fit your needs. Including in every blog service is:

• A blog interface you can easily log into an update yourself. We encourage someone on your staff to update the blog atleast a few times each week, as this will increase web traffic both to your blog and your website.
• Web submissions to all of the major blog search engines and web page search engines. Within a few weeks, your posts will begin being picked up by web news feeds and search engines, and this will drive traffic to your site.
• Instructions on how to properly tag your blog entries for maximum effectiveness. Using tags makes your posts easier to sort, easier to follow for your readers and more effectively referenced by search engines.
• Hosting fees are always included in your setup. No surprise extra bills!
• You choose a format that works for you. Dozens of templates allow you to change how your blog looks at any time without any programming or design skill needed.
• Complete web analytics. You'll know where your readers come from, what brought them to you and which of your articles are most popular. The more you write, the more customers you will draw in.

Blog & Forum Packages to Choose From:

Basic Blog Setup: Everything listed above, your own personal login to do your own entrees
$399 setup, no additional fees

Blog Setup with As-Needed-Contribution: Everything listed above, plus you can pay one of our skilled writers per article to review your products, talk about your company, answer questions for your customers or create content for your blog.
$399 setup + $50/post.

Blog Setup with Weekly Contribution: Everything listed above, plus you can pay one of our skilled writers to write a new article for you each week. This article will be planned out with you before hand to ensure your messages are on point. This package includes an average of 4 blogs/month, though you may receive 5 as the calendar allows.
$399 setup + $150/month

Blog Setup and Complete Administration: Everything listed in the Basic Blog Setup, plus 3 articles/week written in your blog. One post each day on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Blogs are written about your products, your company, or most anything else you'd like.
$399 Setup + $400.month for as long as you choose. This can be changed to a Basic or As-Needed-Contribution Blog at any time.

Basic Forum Setup on an Existing Website: Using bulletin board software, we can set up an interact forum on your existing website that will allow your customers to interact with you and each other on any subject you wish. These work great for companies with tech support or other user-driven activities.
$599 Setup, No additional fees if hosted on your own server

Basic Forum Setup with Hosting: Same as above but hosted on our servers. Great for stand alone bulletin boards or for those without a web host that is forum compatible.
$599 Setup plus $100/month